Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex?

Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex? is a pamphlet written in 1968 by Gordon V. Drake and published by Billy James Hargis's Christian Crusade. It was a key document in the conservative fight against sex education in public schools, a cultural issue that contributed to the development of the New Right.[1][2]

The 40-page document, described by Time magazine as, "an angry little pamphlet,"[3] was originally distributed as part of a direct-mail fundraising campaign for the Christian Crusade, so that the organization could lobby against sex education in schools.[4] It became a source of unfounded anecdotes about the supposed horrors of sex education for groups such as Mothers Organized for Moral Stability.[1]

The pamphlet was the most widely circulated attack on sex education in the 1960s.[5] Drake estimated that it sold over 90,000 copies in the three months after it was published,[1] while Hargis claimed one million overall.[5] A more conservative estimate is 250,000 copies.[11]